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Ruby as Objective C successor for Apple /via @kaler

June 29, 2010 - 6:17pm by bmann   Tags:

There has been a shift in development landscape over at Apple. John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an article about Apple’s language and API future. I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language.

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I predicted Apple TV and iPad in 2005 cc @scobleizer

February 1, 2010 - 9:56pm by bmann   Tags:

So let's just agree that:

  1. Apple could do to movie downloads what they've done to music downloads
  2. iTunes is a likely place for this functionality to live because it's the one app that's already on Windows

But watching things on your TV where you have to walk your iPod Photo across and plug it into your TV (without a remote) isn't really an ideal interface. It would work, but it's not ideal.

Same thing goes for the Airport Express. You can now have all your music on your Mac, and beam it across to your stereo. Except, when you're not actually in front of your computer, you can't control iTunes.

This is where the Mac Tablet comes in. Steve probably poo-poos the Tablet as your main computer (that's what high-end PowerBooks are for). But, a Mac Tablet as media remote, as second computer in the home? Maybe good enough for students, replacing/augmenting the iBook line? Sounds like extra computers being sold.

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OmniGroup is porting their apps to iPad

January 30, 2010 - 2:11pm by bmann   Tags:

We’re really excited about Apple’s iPad, and we want to make all of our products available for it as soon as we can.  Yes, we already had a big year planned for 2010, with several long-anticipated major product releases—but we think iPad is really important:  important enough to spend some time juggling our plans to figure out how we can introduce five new iPad apps.

Yes.  Five.  We want to bring all five of our productivity apps to iPad:  OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher.

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Apple mobile device sizes this decade /via @derekkehler

January 29, 2010 - 4:51pm by bmann   Tags:

Apple Mobile Device Sizes This Decade

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When all you care about is free lunch for all, don't be astonished when you're served shit

January 10, 2010 - 2:17pm by bmann   Tags:

When all you care about is free lunch for all, don't be astonished when you're served shit. This may sound harsh, but if you think the Android Market is going to pressure Apple to relax its iron fist around its App Store walled garden, don't hold your breath.

via padawan.info
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The Apple Tablet is a RAT says @Ihnatko /via @gruber

January 8, 2010 - 2:50pm by bmann   Tags:

My course is clear. My airfare is non-refundable. During the final week of January, I hope to be sitting in an auditorium at Yerba Buena Gardens learning about the Apple Tablet.

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Apple’s ‘iSlate’ Tablet Specs Leaked? /via @rtanglao

January 4, 2010 - 12:01am by bmann   Tags:

The folks over at PhoneArena have gotten their hands on what purports to be a Apple internal documents that basically spells out the rumored iSlate’s specifications. The docs aren’t confirmed in any way at this point. But, if true, the not-yet-announced Apple iSlate will be a monster of a tablet.

The iSlate’s surprisingly impressive hardware specs are enough to tickle our geeky-bone, but there’s one specific spec that really gets our attention. According to the  supposed leaked documents, the iSlate will run something known as Mac OS X 10.7 Clouded Leopard. The new operating system is expected to be a touchscreen-friendly version of Mac OS X that uses a new widget-based homscreen. It’s not clear if Clouded Leopard will actually do any cloud computing.

As for the impressive specs we mentioned. Take a gander at Apple’s rumored specs for their tablet computer:

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Mac Tablet: A Tablet for the rest of us?

January 1, 2010 - 11:02pm by bmann   Tags:

But will it actually be "nothing short of Apple’s reconception of personal computing," as Gruber opined? What I think he's getting at is the sentiment embodied by already announced products like the Litl and Google's Chrome OS. This is the middle ground between the desktop and mobile software platforms, which makes perfect sense for a hardware device that fills a similar position. The "reconception" part comes in when you consider how many people really need the power—and the complexity that comes with it—of a desktop platform, and in what situations. As a computer geek watching the Chrome OS introduction video, it's hard not to think about how much easier some people's lives would be (hi Mom and Dad) if they could trade technical complexities they don't care about for vastly increased simplicity and ease of use.

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Apple Macworld 2009 rumours - Macbook DS (and still no tablet)

January 5, 2009 - 4:23pm by bmann   Tags:

Tomorrow is the Macworld 2009 keynote, this time by Phil Schiller instead of Jobs. Regardless, it's that time of year again -- Apple rumour time! Mac Rumors is still my favourite site for this sort of thing -- here is their 2009 rumor roundup. They are on twitter now, so as well as the MacRumorsLive site, you can also follow them @macrumors.

The rumors seem pretty believable. I'd like to think something more exciting is planned for the MacBook Pro 17" than just a better battery. Maybe touchscreen instead of a keyboard? That's what I was thinking last time ... no keyboard, no trackpad, an entire touchscreen / tablet interface on the "bottom half". Think what this would do for audio mixers, Photoshop tools, etc. etc. I call this crazy wild idea the "Macbook DS" (partial props to UnConed on that one). (you know, kind of like I predicted 2 years ago :P)

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iPhone Nano

January 27, 2008 - 5:02pm by bmann   Tags:

So...who else thinks there is going to be an iPhone Nano?

The main complaint against the iPhone seems to be the price point. Looking at things like the widely popular Motorola RAZR, which ended up in the mass market price bracket, I just have to believe that Apple is thinking along the same lines.

A similar form factor as the Nano, except screen taking the place of the click wheel. What else removed? Not sure, maybe no wifi? Limited storage?

Anyway, just thought I would record this crazy idea. I have no inside information, only time will tell if I'm right. And without a photoshop mock up, I'm not going to get tons of traffic :P

Update: Alexa commented and made a Photoshop of an iPod Touch Nano / iPhone Nano:

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